It's Party Time

Two weeks ago, while chatting over lunch at a local cafe, my friend Suzi and I decided to throw a party. We thought the following weekend would be a good time, so we quickly set up a Facebook invite and got to work inviting our local friends. Unfortunately, we forgot our selected weekend also happened to be Father's Day weekend. As the week progressed and more and more people told us they couldn't make it, we started to have second thoughts. In the end, we figured it would be fun to plan regardless of the number of attendees so we just jumped right in and went for it. We settled on a Pizza and Prosecco party theme. I got the idea from this article that I read in Bon Appetite magazine about a year ago and have wanted to try ever since.  We didn't make any of the appetizers or the fancy toppings but we did have a nice selection of fresh veggies, herbs and pepperoni. The pizzas were delicious and it was lots of fun decorating Suzi's front porch.

This is what the front porch looked like before we got our hands on it:

And here's what it looked like after:

We found these adorable REKO glasses at Ikea. At $1.49/6 pack, you can't beat the price. It's cheaper than plastic! We loved that they can be reused over and over again.

Suzi made this delicious punch. I love the floating berries.

We decided to try to keep the decorating budget under $20, so all the flowers are from my garden. The votives below are covered with hostas (also from my garden) using this tutorial from Martha Stewart's website.

The "vases" below are actually tin cans spray painted white.

In the end, since there only ended up being four of us at the party, we viewed it as a sort of "dry run." It turned out great and was a lovely evening hanging out on the front porch with friends.